List of Venus-crossing minor planets explained

A Venus-crosser is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Venus. There are 2,809^[1] Venus-crosser and 98 outer-grazers known.^[2] Mercury-crossers or grazers are marked ‡.

Venus also has a quasi-satellite, 524522 Zoozve. This asteroid is also a Mercury- and Earth-crosser; it seems to have been a "companion" to Venus for the last 7,000 years or so only, and is destined to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years from now.^[3]

See also

• List of Mercury-crossing minor planets
• List of Earth-crossing minor planets
• List of Mars-crossing minor planets
• List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets
• List of Saturn-crossing minor planets
• List of Uranus-crossing minor planets
• List of Neptune-crossing minor planets

External links

• Very Close Approaches (< 0.01 AU) of PHAs to Venus 1900–2200
• Upcoming Close Approaches (< 0.10 AU) of Near-Earth Objects to Venus

Notes and References

1. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.cgi?obj_group=all;obj_kind=ast;obj_numbered=all;OBJ_field=0;ORB_field=0;combine_mode=AND;c1_group=ORB;c1_item=Bi;c1_op=%3C;c1_value=0.718440;c2_group=ORB;c2_item=Bn;c2_op=%3E;c2_value=0.728213;table_format=HTML;max_rows=500;format_option=comp;c_fields=AcBgBhBiBnBj;.cgifields=format_option;.cgifields=ast_orbit_class;.cgifields=combine_mode;.cgifields=table_format;.cgifields=obj_kind;.cgifields=obj_group;.cgifields=obj_numbered;.cgifields=com_orbit_class&query=1&c_sort=BhA List of asteroids with q<0.718440 AU and Q>0.728213
2. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.cgi?obj_group=all;obj_kind=ast;obj_numbered=all;OBJ_field=0;ORB_field=0;combine_mode=AND;c1_group=ORB;c1_item=Bi;c1_op=%3E;c1_value=0.718440;c2_group=ORB;c2_item=Bi;c2_op=%3C;c2_value=0.728213;table_format=HTML;max_rows=500;format_option=comp;c_fields=AcBgBhBiBnBj;.cgifields=format_option;.cgifields=obj_kind;.cgifields=obj_group;.cgifields=obj_numbered;.cgifields=combine_mode;.cgifields=ast_orbit_class;.cgifields=table_format;.cgifields=com_orbit_class&query=1&c_sort=BhA List of asteroids with 0.718440 AU
3. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2004MNRAS.351L..63M&amp;db_key=AST&amp;high=40daf3f6f900097 Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus